Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-29

will not work until those men who are dis charged be reinstated, except the five crews discharged at Port Richmond, as agreed upon by the executive committee with MT. Sweigard."
 As will be seen by the text of Mr. Lees dispatch, the agreement which had been ar rived at, it is alleged, has not been kept. and will have strong tendency to prevent the amicable settlement that might otherwise have been made. 4- 1e
 The latest strike reports indicate that a reaction is setting in, and that the Reading Railroad company will not be able to fill the places of their striking employees as easily as they anticipated. There is serious trouble at Shamokin, Pottsville, Frankville, Palo Alto and 'Mahanoy Plane. Everybody con nected with the train service struck at these stations yesterday, and freight and coal traffic is virtually blocked. Superintendent M. c. Lawler. of the Mahanoy and Shamo- kin division, put several crews to work at Shamokip, very little was accomplished. The Reading cfficials in the city are not feeling so elated. The sky is not so bright, and their smiling faces have changed. Serious trouble is brewing, and unless the company hurries up its re-enforcemt nts of new men they are like ly to experience block which will not only require several days, but weeks to remove. y say that they have been on the run for a day or two, but have now settled down and de- cided to make stand. The Reading company sent three or four thousand coal and freight cars down the main line during the past twenty-four hours. These cars had been tied up above Reading since last week.
 It YVES rumored last night that general strike, not only among railroad hands and coal miners. will be the result of the meet ing called here to-day by the Knights of Labor. The Reading company have warned all its employees against attending Knights of Labor meetings during working hours, under penalty of dismissal. It is said that officers will watch all persons attending the meetings, and in case of any employees at tending they will be promptly dismissed. Several hundred old train employees, who struck last week, were paid off here yester- day and discharged
 To-day is looked upon as an an important day for both the Reading road and its en- ployes. A convention of employees is 10 be held here, where all the grievances will be ventilated. It is quite likely that the miners will then come to decision whether to in- augurate a strike on Jan. or not. Many of the Knights will await the result of this convention before deciding what to do, and it will take another day or two to discover whether the men are in for a struggle or will take their medicine and settle down.
 PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 29-The Read- ing railroad strike has been ordered on again. Six hundred coal handlers and the crews of seven shifting engines have gone out at Port Richmond.
 The men all went to work at o'clock yes terday morning. bat several hours later word was received that strike had been ordered. At precisely 12 o'clock five shrill whistles from one of the "wharf rats' rent tho air, and seven of the fourteen shifting engines repeated the signal, the engineers ran the seven "wharf rats" to a siding where the fires were drawn, the crews left tho engines ''tied up" and went home,
 Superintendent John o. Keim, who was at dinner at the time, was hastily summoned to the scene. He went out on the different piers while the rain was falling in torrents, He found that half of the shifting crews were loyal to the company, as they were scattered about the wharves and at work. He immediately dispatched messenger to Detective Charles Eckstein, who is in charge of Pinkerton's police about the coal wharves. and in few minutes fully fifty officers were on hand to protect those crews who remained on their engines. r
 These crews were thanked for their loyalty by MT. Keim. About 500 Pinkerton police men have been stationed in and about the coal wharves and roundhouse at Port Rich mond. They are in citizens dress, and it would be hard matter to tell whether they are striking employees or officers They mingle with strikers, listen to their conver- sations, and report to their superiors. All arc armed with heavy Colts revolvers and carry policemen's heavy mace concealed beneath their overcoats; the latter are the same ones used by Pinkerton's men at the stock yard troubles in Chicago. They have the appearance of rough usage.